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Passport Application Rules: If you are going to get a passport, then check the information given in your application form and documents properly. If there is any error in the information, then the department is directly cancelling it and the applicants have to apply afresh. Whereas earlier if there was any error, it could have been corrected. 100 such applications are getting canceled every day.
People are facing the same problem in the regional passport office located in Mahmoorganj. Every day passports of more than 100 applicants are being cancelled due to wrong information of the applicant's full name, address, wife's name, father's name, mismatch in the documents while applying. They are being sent back saying that there is a mistake in the application form, apply again, pay the fee and come the next day.
Every day more than 500 people come from these districts to get their passports made
Every day more than 500 people from districts like Azamgarh, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Ghazipur, Ballia and Jaunpur come to the passport office to get their passports made. When their passports are not made that day, they have to return to their districts disappointed in the heat. The regional passport office has 780 slots for making normal passports and 120 slots for Tatkal. But every day one thousand to twelve hundred people apply for normal passports. Whereas 50 to 70 people apply for Tatkal.
Why are applications getting cancelled?
The passport office official said that Lucknow headquarters has changed the passport rules and said that now if there is any error in the form of any applicant, then it will not be amended, rather the form will be directly cancelled. Due to which the forms are getting cancelled.